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Synonyms:
- money-grubbing, cadging, thirsting, avaricious, needful, monopolistic, urgent, ardent, moneygrubbing, predaceous, hungry, venal, grasping, lusting, hankering, cynical, usurious, selfish, mercenary, self-absorbed, voracious, hopeful, miserly, ungenerous, inward-looking, yearning, desirous, prehensile, passionate, accumulative, expectant, rapacious, grabby, plundering, retentive, give, greedy, ravening, fond, covetous, predacious, possessive, avid, amorous, recollective, sordid, hoarding, longing, predatory, self-centered, eager, self-seeking, coveting, desire, itching, study atgreedy
Examples:
- - But in truth my every sense was awake and poignantly acquisitive. - "First Person Paramount", Ambrose Pratt
- - There were those who held that the cloak might have been carried off by some acquisitive individual. - "The Gay Cockade", Temple Bailey
- - Colonel Mallett thought: " The acquisitive beast is striking attitudes on his fool of a son's account." - "The Danger Mark", Robert W. Chambers
Antonyms:
- content, satisfied, charitable, liberal, magnanimous, sated, openhearted, unacquisitive, bounteous, unsparing, freehanded, munificent, bountiful, generous, handsome, moderate, greathearted, temperate, altruistic, restrained, controlled, unselfish, openhanded, selfless